James Peach <jamespeach@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to git, and I'm experimenting with using git-svn to interact > with a large SVN repository with lots of branches. > > I initially did an init like this: > > git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://server/svn/project > > Then I did a git-svn fetch, which started pulling all the branches. > After a while, however, it hit a branch that it couldn't pull: > > Found branch parent: (tags/project-92~9) > 767f1f1601a4deae459c99ea6c1d1b9ba8f57a65 > Following parent with do_update > ... > Successfully followed parent > fatal: refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9: cannot lock the ref > update-ref -m r13726 refs/remotes/tags/project-92~9 > 950638ff72acc278156a0d55baafbabb43f2b772: command returned error: 128 > > Some amount of searching failed to turn up any hints on what this > error means or how I can work around it. I'd appreciate any advice ... Is there a tag actually named "project-92~9"? If so, it's an invalid branch name for git. I started working on a way around it by mapping new names to it, but haven't gotten around to finishing it.... -- Eric Wong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
